The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before
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"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled. No government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living"--Page 4 of cover.
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The Walking Dead is a 34-book series with 33 released primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn.
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It's so good. Great art, great story, great characters. Looking forward for more. 9/10
Btw. This was my third reading of this book.
I really get the feeling I wouldn't have even picked this up if a friend of mine hadn't lent it to me, which is kind of sad, because I used to get really excited about the prospects of a new Walking Dead volume coming out.
This volume seems to start out okay - our cast tries to regain their collective composure after what they've been put through in the past story arc, and also tries to shore up their resources for the inevitable confrontation with the Woodbury residents. There is still a lot of blood, gore, and death throughout the series, but you do get a bit of a sense that there is some hope in the future for the cast.
The whole thing, however, falls apart when we get to the cliffhanger ending, which shows The Governor to be alive and leading an invasion force against the prison. The fact that he would be able to survive his previous injuries, and maintain his hold of power, stretches the credulity of the story, and turns Walking Dead into a very different kind of comic than it has been in the first 6 volumes.
